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The Costs of the Secrets We Keep
Psychological experiments historically included lab-invented secrets and simulated social interactions. But a fresher body of research explores the secrets people keep in their everyday lives, experimental psychologist Michael Slepian wrote in a new article for Current Directions in Psychological Science.
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Teaching: Parenting by Lying
Parents and other guardians lie to their children for a host of reasons, research confirms. Students have an opportunity to explore why parents evade the truth.
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Detecting Bullshit
When Carl Bergstrom worked on plans to prepare the United States for a hypothetical pandemic, in the early 2000s, he and his colleagues were worried vaccines might not get to those who needed them most.
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It’s Time for Police to Stop Lying to Suspects
Author/APS Member: Saul Kassin Most Americans don’t know this, but police officers in the United States are permitted by law to outright lie about evidence to suspects they interrogate in pursuit of a confession. Of
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Are You Lying More in the Pandemic? Some Certainly Are
As much of the United States moves toward reopening in phases, some people are enjoying little bites of pre-pandemic life, such as dining in restaurants, exercising in gyms and learning in classrooms. With the gradual
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The Good, the Bad and the ‘Radically Dishonest’
In this age of trolls and bots and digital impostors, words like “crank” and “bully” seem impossibly antiquated, like labels from the black-and-white TV era. “Scoundrel” almost qualifies as a term of endearment — culturally